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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Lifestyle
Madeline Buckley

Chicago area welcoming another wave of Afghan refugees: ‘Overnight their lives were just uprooted’

CHICAGO -- The young Afghan men prayed together at a Willowbrook, Illinois, mosque just two days after arriving in Illinois from a military base in New Jersey. Afterward, they shared a meal of chicken, rice and samosas.

In the midst of listening to words of welcome over lunch, one of the men raised his hand.

“I don’t have a question, but I thank you for everything,” he said, through a translator.

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